Valuing the health and wellbeing value of the NHS Scotland’s outdoor estate : How are NHS open spaces used and what is their value to the Scottish population

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Acknowledgements The research was commissioned as part of a Scottish Environment, Food and Agriculture Research Institute (SEFARI) Gateway with Public Health Scotland Fellowship. Funding was provided by the Scottish Government as part of the NHS Climate Emergency and Sustainability Strategy. Additional funding was provided by the University of Aberdeen. The authors would like to acknowledge and thank Jodi Dean (Public Health Scotland), Peter Rawcliffe (NatureScot), Ivan Clark (NatureScot), Michelle Wilson (SEFARI Gateway), and Charles Bestwick (SEFARI Gateway) for their contributions throughout the research study and to this report. The authors would also like to thank Andrew Gasiorowski(Public Health Scotland) for helping with the sites’ spatial data. The authors thank reviewers for their valuable feedback and constructive suggestions. The authors would like to thank all members of the public who took part in the Think Aloud interviews to help design and test the survey used in this study. The authors confirm that this research was conducted independently and was not influenced by any funding sources. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of any affiliated institutions or funding bodies